I strongly agreed with what he said, this idea isn’t fresh, about starting a recycling or reusing waste business. The whole main thing is about transforming the way society sees waste as. Garbage is everywhere, thus Gold is everywhere, your potential lies in any part of the world if you are intending a recycling business. One great example is Zhang Yin. who owns Nine Dragons Paper Holdings, a recycling company that takes scrap paper from the west particularly United States and recycle it to be cardboards in turn to be boxes to package items to export Chinese Goods. It’s the biggest paper company in China, or the world. Tom Szaky however shares another different approach, sourced from pitchyourtalent.wordpress.com I hope this inspires you to be pioneer in something like this too!

Everyone experiences those formative “A-ha!” moments when a scene or image strikes us in a profound way. Many spend their lives building beliefs and passions stemming from that very moment. Inspired by the success his friends had using red wiggler worms to process compost, Szaky felt there could be a business in commercially producing and distributing a product he would call ‘Worm Poop’. Szaky, 30, is founder and CEO of Terracycle, which sells consumer products made from recycled waste. He was named “Best CEO under Thirty” by Inc. magazine in 2006, beating out Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Both Szaky and TerraCycle reached this point via circuitous routes. Born in Hungary under the Communist regime, Szaky fled with his parents to Toronto in 1986 after the Chernobyl explosion. When eight-year-old Tom arrived in Toronto, he was conversant in Flemish, French, Dutch, Hungarian, and the art of fending for himself in strange environments. Soon he learned to speak English and attract adult support for some amazing ventures.

“My parents never told me ‘No’,” he says of his exploits. All of them involved rallying his peers to do something “cool” and then convincing adults that the project was OK. His motto: “If you are going to do it, do it big, and if no one helps, do it anyway.” Success usually meant getting started before getting permission. Szaky was just 14 when he was bit by the entrepreneurial bug .The idea of starting a company was new to him, but he was interested in the internet. So he taught himself to code and launched a graphic design company which employed 3 associates and earned its young proprietor a five-figure income, while landing clients as big as Roots clothing company.

In 2002 Szaky was a freshman at Princeton when he heard about a friend’s discovery.If you fed organic waste to earthworms, they produced fertilizer that plants seemed to love. Fascinated by the concept, Szaky quit school during his sophomore year to launch what is now TerraCycle. From that point on, Szaky was a man obsessed. He paid a Florida inventor $20,000 for a contraption that housed millions of worms and began shoveling Princeton University’s food waste into it to feed an ever-growing colony of worms.He admitted he never was undaunted by having to shovel 150-pound barrels of  garbage daily.

Szaky decided to sell this home-brewed plant food, Earth Plant Fuel.Committed to selling a fully sustainable offering, he packaged his prized Worm Poop in paper bags and took it to gardening stores inviting them to stock it. The response was that the product looked good, but the aroma was not consumer compatible.

Szaky realized he had no money left to design and make packaging for his precious worm poop. That led to his second breakthrough. Szaky started raiding recycling bins for soda bottles. The product was made from waste, so why not the packaging as well? Szaky developed a process to mix his Worm Poop with water, strain out the solids to leave a nutrient-rich liquid, then fill recycled bottles with it and seal them with waste spray tops

To build up a surplus of bottles, he persuaded church and school groups to form “bottle brigades,” which would collect bottles in their neighborhoods in return for small donations. The idea was so good that Szaky took top honors at the Carrot Capital Business Plan Challenge in 2003 and a prizeof $1m in investment. A good thing, as Terracycle had only $500 in the bank at the time.Under Szaky’s direction, more and more trash fed more and more worms which fed more and more plants, and, with Americans throwing out 2.5 million plastic bottles an hour, packaging was also readily available.

In 2007 ,Seth Goldman, the founder of the US drinks company Honest Tea, asked Szaky if he could find a second life for his Honest Kids juice pouches, made from a combination of plastic and aluminium.  In a bid to find a solution, Szaky sat up all night teaching himself to sew the empty pouches into tote bags. Goldman loved the idea and together they came up with the first corporately financed collection brigades.

As the company grew, Szaky saw opportunities everywhere. Trash was something to be ‘upcycled’ into an offering more valuable than the original product. He started with seed starters and potting mix, made from and packaged in waste. Then he offered the Urban Art Pot, made from electronic waste. Then came plastic products, from kites to clipboards, all completely recycled.Today, more than 19 million people around the world collect trash for Terracycle, saving about half a billion pieces of waste per month from ending up in landfills.

Estimated to be worth at $5 million, he recently bought a modest house in nearby Princeton and in an interview said the he prefers to buy as little as possible. “I don’t want to go to Ikea and throw it out after three years, so I buy expensive durable products.’ He has worn the same pair of jeans for nine months and his favorite cotton blazer is 10 years old. Another unusual part of his company is its intern program. Szaky bought a 10-bedroom 7,000 square-foot Victorian house near Trenton High School and hired a cook. Interns work for free, and in return they get room boarding and food.Once the company is self sufficient, I really want to go back to school ”he said. A behavioral economics major, Szaky hopes to return to his former advisor, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman.

Szaky teaches us that there are resources other people are paying to get rid of today that can form the basis of new and valuable offerings. While building a business on trash might not top the glamour charts, it also offers one more lesson: that the word sustainability can apply equally to a business and to the planet when spoken by an entrepreneur.

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In Their Shoes : The Children in Hawker Stalls Age is just a number, the thinking process is the answer. Steve Jobs – Everyday is your last day. Tomorrow Starts Today.

When you have a social entrepreneur at the age of 19 having her own company speaking on getting her first inspiration during 9 years old by building a solar car. So you see, the wavelength or the thinking process of an issue is not determine by age but exposure and always many self intriguing moments. This is just one of the examples of the hundreds of youths today doing their best at defining what an ethical business should be like. 

And the thing about social entrepreneurship is that it’s not something exclusive but ethical, it seems to be a new term today. Is it because business has been unethical and always in profit and forgetting their impact on social aspect? That’s why here comes social entrepreneurs to the rescue? And it could be a good way to brand themselves too? The business world today has much to talk about it. Infact social entrepreneurs is not a field but it’s something everyone can achieve, in any business, any profession. By just thinking on the overall business process what we have affected, be it social or environmental or something else, and thinking on how to be ethical on the damage we caused.

And this girl just reminds me so much of MESYM.com, the project i am doing right now which draws just only 80-100 hits a day but many have said it would be a huge help in many ways.. but i have both things to juggle. Academics and MESYM. Possible? We will see how long more it could go =)

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Balance comes before Successful. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are temporary here.

Everything is ok, fall in love, little fights with your loved ones. We are people, not programmed devices.

I think what i can relate to what he says is about us trying to be different while we all already are. The same goes to what he says in Success. I personally define  first success in a way which when people discover their own purpose.

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What’s your ISO to success?

Well one of my favorite is their cover on Skyscraper by Demi lovato. So far it’s the best duet cover i ever enjoyed =) Where Megan Nicole was also invited to join and yeap just enjoy the awesome vocals and simple strummings.

I wasn’t really into Youtubes but realizing this is platform for really people to just display their talents instead of going outhere and meet the hoo-has. And they are just really black and white, back into the originality and simplicity what music is all about, off the many editings i mean. So here’s a little about what i get from Wiki.

Boyce Avenue is a Puerto Rican -American acoustic rock band. It was formed in Sarasota, Florida by brothers Alejandro, Daniel and Fabian Manzano. The band is named after a combination of two streets the brothers lived on as children. As of 9 August, 2011 they are no longer signed to Universal Republic, and have started their own independent record label called 3 Peace Records.

The band formed in 2004 when Daniel moved back to Florida after graduating Harvard Law School. Alejandro and Fabian were both attending classes at the University of Florida.

In 2006 Boyce Avenue began posting videos on YouTube, both of original material and cover versions. Some of these covers have reached up to 11,000,000 views. These covers have been released in EPs digitally via their independent record label, 3 Peace Records. While producing the videos for YouTube, Boyce Avenue was continuing to create original material for a debut album, All You’re Meant To Be, for release on March 3, 2008. In January 2009 the band performed a stand-alone show in New York City.

With their sights set on connecting with their online fan base, the band turned their attention to touring, playing four headlining shows in the Philippines.Shortly following this, the band returned to the States to begin its first tour of the US. Following these tours, the band launched a tour of Europe, including dates in Germany, Ireland and the UK. In early 2010, the band returned to the Philippines to play festivals with Kris Allen and the Jabbawockeez. This was followed by a spring revisit tour of Europe in 2010.

They are currently the second most searched for band on Youtube, behind ‘Linkin Park’ with over 300 million views and counting, and are known for their distinct cover songs. The band frequently tours to the Philippines and the U.K. Most recently the band signed with Universal Republic and has a second album, entitled All We Have Left, released on June 15, 2010. The album was produced and financed entirely by Boyce Avenue prior to being signed to Universal Republic. The album contains reworked songs from “All You’re Meant To Be” and brand new songs written for the album. The albums first single “Every Breath” was released digitally on March 16, 2010. The music video for Every Breath was released on March 20, 2010.

They cover new popular songs which their fans have chosen for them, including multiple collaborations with other Youtube artists such as Kina Grannis, Box Man Dan, Tiffany Alvord, Megan Nicole,Alex Goot, Megan & Liz, David Choi, Tyler Ward, Savannah Outen, and DeStorm .

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I’ve got an Idea/Invention that can change the World!

Well there are many more things you could read yourself, but steve has written his stories well enough behind his inventions. He made it. And behind his words i find great relevance of why he should be as great as our other great inventors.

Original Feed from HERE.

CUPERTINO (California): Here are some key quotes from Steve Jobs, the legendary co-founder and former chief executive of Apple Inc, who has died.

1.Commencement speech at Stanford University, 2005

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

2. Allthingsd conference, 2010

“There’s nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it’s the coolest product they’ve ever brought home in their lives. That’s what keeps me going. It’s what kept me five years ago, it’s what kept me going 10 years ago when the doors were almost closed. And it’s what will keep me going five years from now whatever happens.”

3. Interview with Playboy magazine, 1985

“I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore. When we finally presented it at the shareholders’ meeting, everyone in the auditorium stood up and gave it a five-minute ovation. What was incredible to me was that I could see the Mac team in the first few rows. It was as though none of us could believe that we’d actually finished it. Everyone started crying.”

4. Apple product launch, June 2011

“One more thing …”

5. Interview with Business Week, 2004

“Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10.30 at night with a new idea, or because they realised something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.”

“And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.”

6. Interview with Fortune magazine, 2000

“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”

“My position coming back to Apple was that our industry was in a coma. It reminded me of Detroit in the ’70s, when American cars were boats on wheels.”

7. Comment to New York Times reporter who asked about jobs’ health, 2008

“You think I’m an arrogant who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.”

8. Interview with Wired, 1996

“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that. But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light – that it’s going to change everything. Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” – Reuter

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Tomorrow Starts Today Social Issues in the World starts from SIN Great People deserves Great Respect. Rest in Peace.